Indoor DIY House Plant Shelf that SELF DRAINS

This is a house plant shelf that automatically drains itself when watering. If you’re trying to build a plant shelf that houses all of your house plants this would be a great idea. This is 8 feet long and it holds a lot of house plants. I don’t have any regrets on building this and I would highly advise anyone looking to attempt us to go for it.
This is a DIY bill so you cannot pre-buy something like this from IKEA or any box chain stores. We also mounted some LED plant lights in the shelving units that really helps ensure that the house plants get adequate amounts of lighting.
We built this plant shelf out of basic building materials that consisted of two by fours and plywood. You will need basic woodworking tools to be able to build a shelf like this that holds house plants. We also use some online or that I had laying around so you will have to purchase or find some of that.
More Talk on Plants.
I am trying to so hard to keep this plant alive!!
So I’ve had it for about a month and a week or so ago my boyfriend watered all of my plants but barely gave this one any and she dried up so fast. I tried the method of putting a large garbage back and green housing it and that seemed like it worked, for a day.
She’s crispy and I’ve been watering consistently but. It still looks so awful and the leaves are curling in and getting brittle. My house is a big dry but I’ve never struggled so hard with a plant and I’m a little pissed because the woman at the shop said it was low maintenance but obviously something isn’t going right should I give it some plant food? Do you think adjusting to a dryer climate is making it so finicky? I just want it to survive because I paid full price for it and it was kind of pricey for me since I usually buy rescue plants.
To me it looks like a variegated creeping fig, which are very particular, they should be kept moist and not super wet, need good drainage and bright indirect light. Sadly once it is crispy it is pretty much gone. If you have any leaves that show life and are not crispy, trim off the dead and see if you can get it to come back.
I mix hydrogen peroxide in the water that I give them. Definitely helps. Just make sure to google the ratios. Also like previous member mentioned, bottom water.
Cinnamon on tops of soil, and using gnat traps in the pots helped me! Also watering with peroxide, I used 3tbs peroxide to one gallon of water & they’re gone so far.
So I started this last week….i boiled cinnamon sticks and poured that cinnamon water into a spray bottle (after it cooled down) i sprayed the top of the soil and i think it’s working i haven’t noticed any after that…if you’re watering the plant maybe spray the soil with the solution first and then water so it can kill the larvae…i barely tried it last weekend so I’m new to this too.
i've used neem oil (can't stand the smell throughout the house), cinnamon seemed to work (you have to re-sprinkle each time you water) and mosquito bits (these break down and disperse the chemical every time you water to kill the larva and pupa). watering from the bottom and allowing top soil to dry out really makes a difference. still going for the gnat traps to capture the flying adults. good luck.. pesty little pests.
Diy indoor plant shelf that drains into a bucket.
I’ve been mixing a few big sprays of neem oil into my watering can and watering everything with it for about a month and that’s the only thing that has fully worked for me so far. I got the idea from someone in this group that posted about it.
You can cover the top of the soil with pebbles or sand to suffocate the larvae. It helps a lot. I tried vanilla and cinnamon and all that above, nothing worked.. so far the pebbles have helped a lot and I also just tried the peroxide/water mix also, I’ve noticed it’s helping too. But the other crap did nothing for me.